Plane spotters at Arbon: the Ground Observer Corps, 1954–1955
In the mid-1950s Arbon kept a Ground Observer Corps post under Mrs. Lee Newport, and a Pocatello recruiter said half the valley's little community had trained as plane spotters.
March 1955
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Two Arbon Valley youths camp in Garden Creek basin, March 1955
In March 1955 Rodney Smith and Calvin Williams, two young men from Arbon Valley farms, camped six days in the deep snow of Garden Creek basin and came home hopeful about the snowpack.